Ok, a person with the YouTube Channel “New World Apple” decided to conduct a “drop test” of the Apple iPhone 5 and the Samsung S3. The result is the Apple…
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Pantech USA’s BURST Android Offered By AT&T For 99 Cents; Has Problems
Pantech USA offers a neat looking but not well-designed-to-use Android-based smartphone called BURST that AT&T’s offering for 99 cents and has a set of annoying problems. This blogger’s Mother was…
TechCrunch Disrupt SF: Livebolt Wins Hack, But Judges Blow
Congrats to Livebolt, The TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon winner. The original plan for this blogger didn’t include TechCrunch Disrupt SF because of family obligations after the Democratic National Convention. But all…
Are these Apple iPhone 5 photos over at Nowhereelse.fr?
A number of American tech bloggers have pointed to the French blog Nowhereelse.fr, as having true photos of the Apple iPhone 5. But it’s obvious some bloggers over here in…
Tech News: Offbeatr is Crowdfunding for Adult Community Tech Projects
Say you have an idea for a tech startup, but because its an app for risque photos, or a website comparing the legs of women in your dorm, Kickstarter kicked…
PSY – GANGNAM STYLE (강남스타일) Music Video His 19 Million Views
Wow. PSY – GANGNAM STYLE (강남스타일), the music video from Korea, and from a rapper I’ve never heard of, gained over 19 million views. That’s 9 million more views than…
Twitter Is Down As Of 9:05 AM, PDT
Twitter is down as of 9:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time. This was confirmed at the Twitter Status Webpage with this note: Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers…
YouTube Livestream Embed Does Not Work For Le Web
If YouTube wants to be the dominant player in providing livestream service over USTREAM.tv, it’s got to get its act together with respect to embedding its livestream video – something…
Le Web London 2012 Live: Robert Scoble Talks The Public Life
(YouTube Livestream embed isn’t always reliable.) At Le Web, Tech Blogger Robert Scoble talks about the advantages of a ‘public life’ or so called because he shares a lot of…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Forbes’ Victoria Murphy Called Him “Unlikely Successor” In 2004
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Apple Founder and CEO Steve Jobs’ pick to replace him prior to his passing (both shown above), can look back and laugh at Victoria Murphy (now…
TechCrunch Traffic Up 36 Percent Due To Facebook IPO News
Don’t look now, but TechCrunch – the blog founded by Michael Arrington, who in 2010 then sold it to the Tim Armstrong and Arriana Huffington-ran AOL, and the same Huffington…
PicPlz, Instagram Competitor, Shutting Down “Permanently” July 3rd
PicPlz, the San Francisco-and-Seattle-based mobile photo-sharing platform founded by Dalton Caldwell, who is now founder of Mixed Media Labs, and this blogger is on (along with a number of others…
Martin Lewis Sells MoneySavingExpert.com Website For £87 Million Or $133 Million
Martin Lewis Sells MoneySavingExpert.com For £87 Million? If you’re reading this and in America, you’re wondering first, who is Martin Lewis, second why is his website worth £87 Million, and…
TechCrunch Disrupt: Michael Arrington Forgets AngelGate At Bin 38
Is TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington losing his memory? Earlier today, this blogger noted the drop in buzz for TechCrunch Disrupt New York, and pointed as the reason, in part, the…
Tap Tank: Life Goal Monitoring Platform Getting Mobile App
Tap Tank is a New York City-based company started by Alisha Outridge, who I met along with her business partner Yael Tamar, at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2011. The three…
Facebook Must Fix The Faulty Friending Algorithm
Facebook’s friend algorithm is poorly designed, and to a degree that this blogger finds consistently annoying. Really, it’s not just the algorithm that tells you that you’re “friending” people you…
Twitter For Small Business: Fitting Square Peg In Round Hole
Twitter. I love it, and combined with Tout it’s a powerful tool. But Twitter’s one main issue has been revenue generation. The problem is Twitter’s basic design is not, for…
Tango Video Calling Growth Focus Of BBC Laura Locke
Tango is not just a dance, but an app that allows you to make video calls via your cell phone. It’s Face Time for those who don’t have an Apple…
Rick Bolander Interview: On Gabriel Venture Partners And DEMO
Rick Bolander, Managing Partner of Gabriel Venture Partners, sat down with me recently, and after the DEMO event in Santa Clara, to talk about what Gabriel Venture Partners looks for…
Web 2.0 Summit No-Go For 2012. I’m Trying To Cry…
2012 will see the Web 2.0 Summit, that small conference that Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle expertly established to become a kind an annual bellweather of where tech was going.…
Are you a tech junkie? When digitial and media collecting becomes digital hoarding
Melinda Beck, a journalist with welcomed me as a psychological expert and contributor to her article, The speed at which the technology industry is infiltrating our lives is taking…
Alexis Tsotsis Of TechCrunch Says AOL “Undeniably Sucks”
After it was purchased by America Online – opps, AOL – for $30 million, and saw Huffington Post Founder Arriana Huffington become the boss over it, TechCrunch tech blog has…